Police: Don't fall for electric bill scamsThe Kodiak Police Department is warning residents not to give sensitive information such as credit card numbers over the phone to callers requesting immediate electric bill payment. According to a Nixle alert from KPD, callers have told Kodiak Electric Association that customers are receiving calls “demanding immediate payment or their electricity would be cut off in 5 minutes.” KEA will contact their customers by...

Borough staff to look at mobile home code after Jackson saleKodiak Island Borough staff is aiming to schedule meetings and potentially make code amendments to try to find a solution for the dozens of people that live in the recently-sold Jackson Mobile Home Park, said Bob Pederson, the community development department director, at a Planning and Zoning Commission special meeting Wednesday night. There are other mobile home parks in Kodiak, and Pederson said he knows a coup...

Teeing Off: Life on the roadSitting on a school bus for the first time in more than decade brought me back to my playing days. I had plenty of time to stroll down memory lane on the ride from Kenai to Homer. I took a seat up front with the coaches, while the players on Kodiak High School’s baseball team occupied the back — most of them slept, some talked or listened to music through headphones, and a few scribbled on the fogged-up windows. T...

Coastal Forager: Spa treatments there for the gatheringThe season is upon us; it is just about time to shake off our movie binges and sweatpants and plunge headlong into the sweet, endless days of light ahead. Summer for me means wading in the ocean to look for giant geoduck shells with my niece and nephew, camping every chance I get and enjoying fresh seafood cooked over beach fires. It's also the time to emerge from my den and scrub off the feeling of being cooped u...

Friday's prep sports cancelledFriday's Kodiak baseball game and track meet were cancelled because visiting teams did not arrive due to dense fog surrounding the island. Both events will tentatively start at 10 a.m. Saturday. The track team is hosting Bartlett at Joe Floyd Track and Field, while the baseball team plays Houston at Baranof Field. Track's field events will start at 10 a.m., while the running events get going at noon.

Gisli Arni KristjanssonGisli Arni Kristjansson, 49, Kodiak, Alaska, passed away, May 9, 2015. He was born on Sept. 12, 1966, in Vestmannajar, Iceland, where he lived until he was 17 years old. When he had the opportunity to come to America and work on the Dakota, his dad’s fishing boat in Washington, he did. Gisli was an excellent swimmer and proved that May 7, 2006. When he was aboard a 32-foot cod fishing vessel while rounding Priest ...

MOUNTAIN VIEWS: Deceased donors teach lessons in lifeGross anatomy (noun): the branch of anatomy that deals with the structure of organs and tissues that are visible to the naked eye. If there was one thing that semi-prepared me for gross anatomy class in college, it was growing up in a fishing family. Frankly, commercial fishing is "gross" in the more standard sense of the word. The strong smells of rotten herring and rotten clams in old bait containers was a regul...

Dunbar third at USATF road mileFormer Kodiak standout Trevor Dunbar raced his way to a nice payday Thursday in Minnesota. Dunbar, a professional runner for Nike, pocketed $1,800 with a third-place finish in the USATF 1-Mile Road Championships in Minneapolis. The 2009 KHS graduate and former All-American at the University of Oregon clocked a mile time of 4 minutes, 10.1 second. Former Stanford start Garrett Heath topped the 15-man field with a t...

AMAZING NATURE: Kodiak students enjoy mud flats and deep seaIt was a busy week. This year during the first week of May the Kodiak Ocean Science Discovery Program went out of town for five days of marine science curriculum. The target was the five students in the Port Lions Middle School as well as 11 students from St. Mary’s School in Kodiak. It was a great match, because students and teachers already knew each other from previous activities. After plenty of planning, prep...